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George Lucas
American
Director
Born:
May 14
,
1944
Film
Good
People
Technology
Work
You
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You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
George Lucas
You
Imagination
Unless
Imagine
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
George Lucas
Power Corrupts
You
Corrupts
Power
Few
Every
Think
Hundred
Hundred Years
Charge
Classic
Tendency
Over
Because
Doing
Years
Same
Same Things
Being
Story
Again
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Actually
Right
Things
Start
Good luck has its storms.
George Lucas
Good
Luck
Good Luck
Storms
Chance
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas
You
Matter
Everybody
Talent
Until
Around
Discovered
Just
Moving
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
George Lucas
Hope
You
Will
Before
Think
Other
Side
Secret
Worthwhile
Hopelessness
Give
Something
Through
Pushed
Come
Because
Doing
Up
Very
Really
Hard
Brink
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas
Illusion
Secret
Movies
Film
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
George Lucas
Work
Education
School
Seriously
Car
College
Accident
Before
Community
Thinking
Summer
Spent
Bad
About
More
Hospital
Take
Heading
Like
Got
Go
Graduated
Where
Wanted
Decided
Race
Race Cars
Really
Community College
Car Accident
Right
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
George Lucas
Work
You
Important
Extremely
Without
Very
Get
Going
Anywhere
Working
Working Hard
Hard
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
George Lucas
Work
Me
Together
People
Big
Society
Out
Put
Make
Always
How
Been
Anthropology
Interest
Themselves
Works
Things
Started
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas
You
Achievement
Goals
Realistic
Exactly
Able
Part
Know
Because
Always
Issue
Going
Where
Hardest
Things
Set
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.
George Lucas
Love
People
Will
Out
TV
Football
Attendance
Football Games
Like
Go
Affect
Same
Stadium
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Movies
Really
Games
Who
Saturday
Saturday Night
Night
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
George Lucas
You
People
Fear
Sense
Archaeological
Gives
Mythology
Come
Conclusion
Form
Psychology
Really
Believes
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
George Lucas
Good
Think
Write
Writer
Good Writer
Although
Very
Screenplays
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'
George Lucas
Me
You
Director
Decision
Right Decision
Say
Students
Hour
Know
Make
Makes
How
Decisions
Them
Ask
Right
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.
George Lucas
Education
Good
History
You
Business
Architecture
World
Economics
Secret
Unless
Say
Besides
About
Something
Make
Subject
Get
Any
Going
Movie
Movie Business
Psychology
Whether
Skill
Help
Good Education
Film
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
George Lucas
Technology
Digital
Revolution
Nothing
Adding
Digital Technology
More
Color
Pictures
Sound
Same
Less
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
George Lucas
Time
Science
School
Living
Spent
Guy
My Time
Daydreaming
Most
Math
Math And Science
Turn
Much
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
George Lucas
Science
Culture
Looking
Before
Living
Had
Major
Call
Sort
Became
Does
Anthropology
Lot
Very
Done
Psychology
Which
Social
Organism
Film
Why
Sociology
Playing
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'
George Lucas
Science
Reality
World
Sense
Kind
Restrained
Seems
Simply
Makes
Said
Making
Any
Going
Interesting
Create
Wars
Fun
Star
Star Wars
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
George Lucas
Art
You
Technology
Charcoal
Arch
Because
Wall
Endeavour
Human
Dependent
Using
Even
Designed
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
George Lucas
Imagination
One Thing
About
Like
Toys
Proud
Really
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Why
Thing
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
George Lucas
Complicated
Fire
Sieve
Out
Putting
Like
Making
Gets
Many
Elements
Film
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas
Truth
Reality
Innovation
Whatever
Immaculate
Has-Been
Part
Been
Quest
Happened
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'
George Lucas
You
Space
Everybody
Say
Would
Outer
Outer Space
Like
Know
Sound
Afraid
Things
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
George Lucas
Good
Think
Seven
Pretty
Pretty Good
Magnificent
Western
Samurai
Interesting
Film
Good Film
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
George Lucas
Tool
Telling
Boring
Boring Thing
Pretty
Without
Effect
Story
Means
Special
Thing
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